Sundays @...Branded Saloon
A reading series presented by Bold As Love Magazine
Writers and Readers and Beer! Oh My!
Join us at our new location for Bold As Love Magazine's Brooklyn reading series! Inspirational, intriguing and provocative work from accomplished writers of color across a wide range of genres, all part of a progressive literary tradition. Curated by Bold As Love's books editor Bridgett M. Davis.
Sundays @...Branded Saloon
Joining our growing circle of authors this month will be:
- Jabari Asim
- Jennifer Baker
- Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Donation kindly requested. Copies of Only The Strong and Blue Talk and Love will be available for sale.
Sunday, May 31, 2015, 04:30 PM
603 Vanderbilt Avenue, BK, NY 11238, United States
Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim is an associate professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of 12 books, including The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, And Why, What Obama Means: For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future, A Taste Of Honey: Stories, and Only The Strong, a novel.
Jennifer Baker
Jennifer Baker is a writer of fiction & nonfiction, creator of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and social media manager for We Need Diverse Books. Her writing appeared in Newtown Literary, Boston Literary Magazine, Eclectic Flash, and Poets & Writers magazine, and a story forthcoming in The Female Complaint.
Jennifer will be reading an excerpt from a story in her linked anthology manuscript Family Album. The collection follows an interracial family in Long Island, NY over three generations and several decades.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, she has received the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Fiction in New York City. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Best New Writing, American Fiction, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, Ebony.com, The Root.com, and The Feminist Wire, where she is Associate Editor for Arts & Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, and is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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